Conference : The Antarctican Society : This conference is for discussion of any topic related to the Society. http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/ Charles: I was fortunate enough to winterover under the Dome almost 30 years ago. My memories are still strong, and I expect that I am not the only one. I would love to see the Dome find a home back in the States and perhaps shelter an exhibit on the South Pole experience. To that end, I am willing to write letters of support and contribute funds if that is necessary. Count me in. Tom Henderson http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=0ED904FF-3048-7B4D-A953315B8768734C&r=1 2009-11-19T23:48:41-07:00 South Pole Dome I am curious as to what members think about efforts to preserve the geodesic dome from South Pole station that is due for demolition this year. Would it be worthwhile for the Antarctican Society to get involved? Would it even be worthwhile to help preserve the dome and reestablish it some place stateside? Anybody have any thoughts on the matter? http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=09EE7794-3048-7B4D-A9289B14F67C4C40&r=2 2009-11-19T00:54:00-07:00 South Pole Dome Here is how I plan to catalog the slide collections: 1. CAT is the designation for the catalog number assigned to each individual slide. It is usually the owner's initials followed by the number sequence. In this case, the CHARLES LAGERBOM COLLECTION is cataloged as CL1 to CL1400. 2. DATE is the date effective on the slide provided by the owner, most often as month and year. Sometimes more specific dates (ie. 12/02/59) were provided. Occasionally, the slide was not dated but had a date imprinted from the processor like 1968 when the slide was processed. In those cases, that date was used. When there was no date written or imprinted, the date category was left blank. 3. TIME TREK dates run from September to August. The slides have been aligned with TIME TREK in that a slide taken in February 1964 will go in the TIME TREK designation as 1963-1964. 4. CATEGORY is the designation given for what general type of activity the slide represents. The following categories were used: Animal - some sort of wildlife pictured Aviation - activities associated with VX6 Equipment - involved transport, science gear, etc Ice - icebergs, ice sheets, ice falls, sastrugi, etc Misc - anything that could not neatly fit in any of the other categories People - where focus was of a person or group Scenic - views of scenes, oftentimes aerial Science - involving geology, glaciology, biology, oceanography, etc Ship - a particular ship, oftentimes named (in CAPITALS) Structure - a particular station, base or camp 5. LOCATION 1 designates most generally where the slide was taken (ie. Antarctica) 6. LOCATION 2 and LOCATION 3 use more specific locations if needed 7. NOTES are any further information that was written on the slide such as people identification, what was happening, etc If submitters did some of this before hand, it will speed conversion time. Thanks, Charles Lagerbom http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=C1527268-3048-7B4D-A94E25FD2C69809D&r=3 2009-01-10T16:14:12-07:00 Society to Offer New Service The Antarctican Society is launching a new service to its members. Beginning in January, 2009, members may submit their Antarctica-related photographic film slides to the Society for conversion to high-resolution digital images. The images will be produced entirely by the Society using a recently purchased high-quality scanner. This free service is available only to members as a benefit of membership. In exchange, the Society will be granted the non-exclusive right to use the images on the Society website, specifically Time Trek. Watch for details on the website soon. http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=2388DBE3-3048-7B4D-A9B98BFFEA55A730&r=4 2008-12-11T00:53:38-07:00 Society to Offer New Service There is some good news today. Google has finally released their new version of the GE plugin for MacIntosh computers. Now it works on both Windows and Mac machines. While the new plugin is still listed by Google as a "beta" version, this is a big step. Now the Time Trek development team can move to integrate the new version of the plugin into the Time Trek application and be assured that it will work for more than 95% of our users. Look for that early next year. http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=0314392C-3048-7B4D-A9096CBD846E9752&r=5 2008-12-04T17:38:23-07:00 Google Earth for Mac As of today, members are no longer required to login separately to the Forums. If you login to the main site, you automatically are logged into the Forums. It should now be much easier to post messages and reply to postings. So there are no more excuses! These Forums are for our members' use .... so let's use them! As always, if you have problems in using the Forums, contact me (the webmaster) at webmaster@antarctican.org http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=A208B889-3048-7B4D-A91309EF7CF3484F&r=6 2008-11-15T21:22:39-07:00 Let the postings begin! If any Society member is having trouble registering for this set of forums, please respond to this posting or send me an email at webmaster@antarctican.org so I can investigate and clear up the problem. I can always assist and work out any problems. Thanks! :D http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=A8B54537-3048-7B4D-A96D6C10073F0B19&r=7 2008-06-21T01:20:29-07:00 Having Trouble Registering? Marty: This is great stuff!!! Thanks for the link. This is exactly the kind of thing I think should be part of our website, either included entirely or referenced as a link. I would prefer the former as then we would be sure to have it even if the current location is taken down. Also, I'm sure a lot of it could be excerpted to use in our Time Trek area of the website (the Google Earth version of it just went live yesterday, BTW). Would you object to the Society using it in this way? And thanks for posting. I'm sure Dale was wondering if there were any members out there interested in the Forums! Tom Henderson, Webmaster :D http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=7FD72A1E-3048-7B4D-A983ACB7D54C0AF5&r=8 2008-06-13T02:53:04-07:00 Where are they now? Howdy Marty. I downloaded your report and I am enjoying reading it. Reminds me of the day I threw out the diaries of my years on the ice. Unfortunately they were filled with unhappiness about missing the Minister's Daughter I had left behind. I did not want my wife(married 46 years and counting), children, or grandchildren reading that stuff about a former girl friend. Thanks for posting it. Dale --- $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington $ http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=7844D544-3048-7B4D-A9792F3AC0DE5B84&r=9 2008-06-11T15:35:54-07:00 Where are they now? I saw the name Rob Flint. Besides being our president for awhile I had a very good year serving at Plateau Station in 1966 when Rob was Our Scietific Leader for the year. Sometime ago I hade posted an account of my Antarctic experiences with Katie Wallet web page "The New South Polar Times," as part of a project for the public school system in Virginia. It no longer is available so I now posted on my liitle colleges page where I teach physics and the history of science. http://www.mlc-wels.edu/home/academics/divisions/mathsci/sponhomp/amongthemagi/ Any body from the Plateau days out there? Marty http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=755E49D9-3048-7B4D-A92ED33F83FCF532&r=10 2008-06-11T02:04:51-07:00 Where are they now? I just noticed that Rob Flint and I worked on some of the same things, for some of the same people, and at Byrd Station also! But I was at Old Byrd but I assume he was at New Byrd. And we both have Masters in Electrical Engineering! Similar interests include education but I am more into homeschooling and the separation of school and state while he has been more successful than I being elected to government school boards but I did attend hundreds of school board meetings. Dale PS And my middle name is "Robert." http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=1B49CD84-3048-7B4D-A90E45AA6A8F47CA&r=11 2008-02-15T04:11:04-07:00 Where are they now? I agree that we can use any help we can get determining what has happened to fellows that we wintered with including these Antarctican Society Forums. A couple URL's that I discovered googling are: http://www.zfids.org.uk/ and http://www.suburbia.com.au/~anarensw/ I visited Halley Bay in 1957 so I have enjoyed schmoozing with Andy Smith at the first URL who sends out regular newsletters. An Aussie fellow(and his wife) stayed with Katy and I at our home in Boulder for a few days and I asked about him at the second URL. But no one has answered me yet. I meant to ask about the fellow(and his wife) from an Aussie Amateur Radio operator I read about in the ARRL.org magazine but have not done it yet. Dale KB7VEJ http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=1B35A644-3048-7B4D-A9E48FC1C6DD4242&r=12 2008-02-15T03:49:03-07:00 Where are they now? You might be right, Dale, although the last time I googled myself, the only information I found was over 15 years out of date. Our members could be one more good source for making contacts. I guess your point is well taken: the web offers so many ways of getting almost any information you are looking for. http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=1ABAF72E-3048-7B4D-A961F58919C3BB97&r=13 2008-02-15T01:35:03-07:00 Where are they now? Sometimes I wonder what happened to fellows I wintered with, both civilian and military. Some have already died and others(American and Australian) used to visit and stay at my home in Boulder, Colorado but that was a very long time ago. To further my quest I am a member of many Antarctic groups both American and one British and I amd a Lifetime Member of a Seabee group. One good source of info are the mostly military fellows at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OAEs-and-FNGs/ I don't understand what you mean by "our community is small enough." What is required is a Very Large Source of names but maybe I don't understand the question. Difficult to compete with www.google.com Dale http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=16106AD2-3048-7B4D-A942DD5EF6F67F19&r=14 2008-02-14T03:50:17-07:00 Where are they now? One possible use of these forums is to locate or get information on Antarctic colleagues that we have lost touch with. I'm sure our community is small enough that somebody out there might be able to help. Is there interest in this? If there is enough interest, it might even merit a separate forum. http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=15C98632-3048-7B4D-A96B0BFEED2B64E7&r=15 2008-02-14T02:32:51-07:00 Where are they now? I wintered at Ellsworth Station 57/58/59 and at Old Byrd 59/60/61. A few months home in Boulder, Colorado then to Fairbanks, Alaska in my bright red MGA between trips to the ice. I eventually engineered 30 years at Boeing doing electromagnetics after measuring the Ionosphere, Cosmic Rays, Very Low Frequency phenomena, and Radio Noise in Antarctica. Married my secretary Katy at NBS/Boulder, two sons, two grandsons, now spend way too much time in Cyberspace. I am looking forward to schmoozing with my fellow Antarcticans. Dale Reed http://67.199.27.3/antarctican_society/cfmbb-1.23/messages.cfm?messageid=1111936D-3048-7B4D-A93FA651CA6479B3&r=16 2008-02-13T04:33:27-07:00 Howdy from Seattle, Washington